17 – 19 December 2018. Vienna, Austria. The 9th meeting of the Carpathian Convention Implementation Committee offered a context for member states to look back at the latest work in the region and to look forward to the next steps.

In the frame of the meeting, TRANSGREEN was presented by Mrs. Hildegard Meyer (her updates are available at this link). TRANSGREEN project was well perceived as Carpathian Convention flagship project. As a reaction to the project, Ms. Ramona Cherascu from the Romanian Ministry of the Environment highlighted the good cooperation within the project in Romania and its importance for the Romanian transport infrastructure development.          

The event also hosted a symbolic moment: the international organization WWF awarded the WWF Gift to the Earth Award for the Carpathian Convention. The award is symbolic and it highlights both the environmental leadership and the inspiring conservation achievement contributing to the protection of the living world.